Book contents
- Stroke
- Stroke
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- One The Ventricles
- Two The Force of Blood
- Three Congestion
- Four Forgotten Forms of Apoplexy
- Five Haemorrhage
- Six Ramollissement
- Seven Thrombosis and Embolism
- Eight No Man’s Land: The Neck Arteries
- Nine Lacunes
- Ten Stroke Warnings
- Eleven Saccular Aneurysms
- Twelve Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
Ten - Stroke Warnings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2023
- Stroke
- Stroke
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- One The Ventricles
- Two The Force of Blood
- Three Congestion
- Four Forgotten Forms of Apoplexy
- Five Haemorrhage
- Six Ramollissement
- Seven Thrombosis and Embolism
- Eight No Man’s Land: The Neck Arteries
- Nine Lacunes
- Ten Stroke Warnings
- Eleven Saccular Aneurysms
- Twelve Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
Summary
Around the mid-nineteenth century, it became commonly known that the deficits of brain softening had sometimes been preceded by temporary attacks of the same kind (hemiplegia, disorders of language). In the middle of the twentieth century, Fisher recognized that episodes of monocular blindness, identified in 1898 as embolic (Knapp), were also potential harbingers of cerebral ischaemia. Studies addressing the risk of stroke after such warnings, conducted in the 1960s and early 1970s, were sparse and difficult to interpret.
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- StrokeA History of Ideas, pp. 312 - 337Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023